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What's your superpower?

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    I aquired this superpower trough habits, but i can intuitively find the north.

    Apart from that, well, I'm just myself

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      I aquired this superpower trough habits, but i can intuitively find the north.

      Apart from that, well, I'm just myself

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      I keep trying to learn that, but keep forgetting. ADHD is rough. X.x

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        Being a slut is a superpower now?

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        Let’s just say I put the “power” in “power bottom.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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          My sister and I were talking about benign superpowers and decided the X-Men probably have someone like a band director with a superpower like perfect pitch who watches after the school while everyone else is off adventuring.

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            I keep trying to learn that, but keep forgetting. ADHD is rough. X.x

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            You have ADHD too? I know what it is, and trying to maintain routines is hell of a hard task.

            To be used to do it, you must not learn it the duolingo way (you will forget anyways, even with reminders), but actually find use and interest in everyday life and in your passions.

            Get some interest in how wind works (which directions do wind take and why), when there's wind, you will see it’s often the same directions, and you can try to guess its orientation by that.

            Also, astronomy (looking at the night sky, you will be used to find the polar star at the same place and will notice that planets always align on the sun path, rising at the east and setting at the west).

            You must not learn it, but immerse yourself in it to the point it becomes a secondary nature.

            (Yeah this method worked for me for languages and philosophy, which i really sucked at back then, but looking at what i wrote it’s pretty generic, so i hope it at least helped you a little ^^')

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              oh wait i got another one, my tinnitus it a pretty constant pitch, and i can measure my intervals offa it so i got perfect pitch. i can't tell you what note it is (except for b3, i hit that one perfectly every time because of this one ave maria) but it takes me a minute. the note is e11 or e12 i can't remember which anymore

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                I can count almost perfect seconds. Most people think they can count seconds until they try to prove it.

                Like, give me a stopwatch. I can count seconds to within an average of .05 of a second.

                I can do this consistently over a long period of time, i gave up counting when i tested it.

                It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.

                After many years of hearing these rhythms and noticing the different rhythms that would be made as we changed the batteries over time, i ended up being able to tap the rhythm out on a table/in my head etc and now its just ingrained into my head.

                taTA ta... taTA ta... taTA ta...

                Absolutely useless.

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                Give this guy a wood block!

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                  I guess we are only talking about the oddly specific ones so.

                  I like acidic foods so much, that I drank a cup of vinegar once, and survived.

                  My teeth are also weirdly resistant to decay.

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                  Mine were too, zero cavities at 37 years old with mediocre tooth care, I didn't even floss. Then I moved somewhere they don't fluoridate the water and I also went vegan. No fluoride + low calcium = 3 cavities in less than 3 years. Needless to say I now floss, brush with a fluoridated toothpaste, and take calcium supplements.

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                    I have a watered down version of this, but I'm a lawyer so it's very very valuable. If I get a question I might not know the answer to, if I've read it somewhere I usually know roughly where to go back to get it. And since lawyers mostly look things up instead of trying to memorize everything, a powerful "indexing" memory is valuable in the profession. At least in my practice.

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                    Fuck, I knew I chose wrong.

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                      I can plug in a USB drive/cable on the first time, successfully, without flipflopping the connector (and then USB C had to come along and invalidate my only worthwhile achievement)

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                        It's definitely not 100%, and I'm rarely waking up at 6am, but I can usually just decide when I want to get up, and wake without an alarm. It's like I can tell the time in my sleep.

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                        I thought this was a special power that all middle-aged people got as their sleep quality gets shittier. Like your brain is still idling, tracking stuff, instead of fully resting.

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                          I am cold resistant in general and I never had a brain freeze headache. Can load up my whole mouth with crushed ice or popsicles and let it all melt, never had one.

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                          Have you tried it on a hot day? For me it's the contrast that causes the headache.

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                            Does ADHD count? As it has a few superpowers you just can’t turn them on when you want sometimes. It also comes with some kryptonite.

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                            My ADHD is not a super powerful and I'd give it up in a heartbeat.

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                              I am very hangover resistant. I'm into my 30s now, I've only ever had one hangover, and I attribute that to a bit of blood loss (mishap trying to open a bottle of champagne with a sabre, I have now mastered that art)

                              I don't drink particularly often, I'll often go a few weeks without a drink, but I do occasionally find myself in a position where I get absolutely hammered and I wake up the next day feeling absolutely fine.

                              Years ago I was camping out at a music festival and got totally incoherently drunk, stumbled halfway into my tent and crashed there for the night. The next morning my friends who hadn't gone nearly as hard woke up all feeling pretty rough, and we're created by me already awake and making breakfast feeling fresh as a daisy.

                              I do tend to mix in plenty of water and food with my nights of debauchery, so I can't say that it's genetic or if I just happen to be doing the right thing. It's not a purposeful anti-hangover measure, I just want food and water while I'm drinking.

                              I'm not totally immune to the negative effects of alcohol though. I absolutely get red wine headaches, and a good night of drinking may sometimes give me a Charley horse the next day.

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                              I do tend to mix in plenty of water and food with my nights of debauchery,

                              Hang overs are mostly dehydration.

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                                I can plug in a USB drive/cable on the first time, successfully, without flipflopping the connector (and then USB C had to come along and invalidate my only worthwhile achievement)

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                                That's not a superpower, that's just witchcraft

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                                  Predicting psychopathic behavior hasn't been based on my 401k.

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                                  Few people expected the current madness

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                                    I can cut butter to the exact weight each time.

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                                      I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
                                      So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.

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                                      I had this before my hearing was damaged in my mid-thirties. I could hear if any electrical device with large filter capasitors was turned on, even from another room. I discovered by accident that the high pitch noise was emitted by the capasitors when I was fixing old audio gear, I guess they vibrate while doing their job or something like that.

                                      I talked about this with my friend who was specializing to be an ear/hearing doctor, his theory was that my upper hearing range was a bit higher than average. He also talked about how brains filter sensory data and it could just be that my filters weren't blocking these frequencies.

                                      It was also impossible for me to sleep in a room if there were any mosquitoes. The whining of their wings even in the far side of a room was maddening, so I had to kill them all every night before hitting the bed. The one good thing that came out of the damage to my hearing was that the mosquitoes bother me no more, unless they fly right in front of my ears.

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                                        It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.

                                        Even one clock ticking in a room is enough to drive me mad. I'm not sure if having three would be better or worse. Adding some rhythm to it might help actually.

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                                        Regarding rythm: https://youtu.be/SthcxWPXG_E

                                        Maybe it would end like this at one point if multiple clocks won't get enough power.

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                                          I'm the same way. It makes my memory recall interesting. I remember the colors first and then translate them to numbers or letters. Made a college job as a receptionist interesting.

                                          I also 100% agree on names must look appealing by color. We have different colors, but the similarities are stark.

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                                          What is a pretty looking name or word to you? Also, what are the colors of the numbers to you? Some synesthetes have really awesome colors while I feel like mine are pretty lame most of the time xD so many black and white and green and red letters. So few yellows and blues and pinks and purples. It's tragic lol.

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